The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-07
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
The Probable Course of the Senate il
the Lamar Case.

the Lamar Case.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The President
sent the following nominations to the
Senate today:
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
William F. Villas of Wisconsin, to be
Secretary of the Interior.
Don NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan, to be
Postmaster General
Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, to be
Secretary of the Treasury.
George l.. Rives, of New York, to be AS
sistant Secretary of State.
Isaac H. Maynard, of New York, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Sigourvey Butler, of Massachusetts to be
Second Comptroller of the Treasury.
James w. HYATT, of Connecticut, to be
Treasurer of the United States.
Senatorial courtesy" which has usually
led to the compliment of confirmation with
out reference to committee when Sena-
tor or ex-senator has been nominated to any
other office, has never prevailed in respect
to nominations to positions on the bench of
the Supreme Court. The last case preceding
that of ex-Secretary Lamar was that of
Mr.. Conkling, who had been out of the
Senate a much shorter period than has Mr.
Lamar. Mr.. Conkling's nomination was
sent to the Judiciary Committee and re-
ported back. He was confirmed by the
Senate, and then declined the Office. 1t is
probable that the nominations sent to the
Senate to-day will not be formally laid be-
fore the body until the committees are
formed.
Mr.. Lamar feels confident that his nomi-
nation will be confirmed. He has received
assurances from his personal friends among
the Republican Senators which forbid his
entertaining any doubt about it. There is
no question as to the confirmation of the other
nominations sent by the President to the
Senate to-day.
Mr.. Lamar and Mr.. Villas are well known
to the public, but Mr. Dickinson is a new
man. A few words respecting him and his
career may, therefore, be interesting. The
new Postmaster General, Don M. Dickinson,
is in his 41st year, and comes of American
stock ON both sides, through generations
running back to the seventeenth century,
On his fathers side he is descended from the
Massachusetts Dickinsons, and on his
mothers from the Holmeses, who were with
Roger Williams at the Providence planta-
tions His father was a man of rare sin-
tellect and high cultivation. Circumstances
made it necessary for young Dickin-
son to earn his own way to education and
he accomplished it at school and college with
his own means, gained at first by manual
labor and later by an exceptional capacity
and judgment for all business, and remark
able facility for turning off work, and for
taking responsibility. Admitted to the bar
when barely 81 he rose rapidly in his profess
sion, and from the age of 25 he has been a
leading lawyer in his State, and from the age
of 80 one of the first counsel in the North
west. His name has been associated as counsel
in nearly every famous litigation in Michi-
gan, and in the Supreme Court of the United
States his record of successes has been bril-
liant. Mr.. Dickinson's contest IN behalf of
the State courts against the alleged invasion
of their jurisdiction by the Federal judiciary
under the bankrupt law was quas-political
in its character, and the Supreme Court of
the United States, in the LaRoux case, after
seven years of defeats in the lower courts
his position was sustained. His latest widely
known appearance in that court was in the
great telephone contest where he made
the leading argument for Drawbaugh
against Bell, and was associated with
Senator Edmunds and Lysander Hill His
professional income runs from $50, 900
to 1000 per annum. In politics Mr.. Dick
son is a Jetfersonian Democrat, believing in
domestic self-government, a strict construc-
tion of the Constitution, and opposing class
legislation, in which he embraces all pro-
tective laws. But he advises care and eau
tion in dealing with protection as it exists
He has been a recognized leader of his party
since he attained his majority. MIR. Dickin-
sons first vote was cast for Horatio Sey-
mour. He was Secretary of the State Cen
tral Committee at "a, ara chairman in the
Tilden campaign of 1876, when 2S conducting
one of the most vigorous campaigns Michi-
gan has ever known, and doing great part
in reducing the 10000 Republican ma
jority to 10000 plurality. He was close in
Gov. Tildens counsels both in 1876 and
1880, and was on terms of friendship with
that distinguished man. Mr.. Dickinson
was Delegate-at-Large to the convention of
1880, and chairman of the Michigan delega-
tion. Since 1884 he has represented Michi-
gan on the National Committee. Mr.. Dick
inson has constantly refused the use of his
name as a candidate for Congress or for any
other office. The only public position he
ever held was that of visitor to the United
State Naval Academy, the expenses and
emoluments of which he devoted to the use
of that institution.